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16th April 2021 10:36 am 16th April 2021 10:36 am Engineers in the US have developed a one-pot process for converting woody plant matter like forest overgrowth and agricultural waste into liquid biofuel.  Carolina Araujo Barcelos preparing the woody biomass for deconstruction into fermentable sugars (Image: Berkeley Lab) The teams from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Sandia National Laboratories report their findings published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engine...

The overall trade deficit expanded by 87% in February to $71.1 billion (SPY -0.3%). Dollar dumps amid COIN carnage, Archegos Angst, & Ignited Inflation. The Market in Perspective Here are the headlines moving the markets. Lithium Prices Could Triple As EV Production Soars The global market share of electric vehicles is set to rise so quickly that battery manufacturers will not be able to meet production requirements, a Rystad Energy analysis shows. The reason is that the mining capacity of l...

Governors Wind Energy Coalition US power sector is halfway to zero carbon emissions Source: By Julie Chao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory • Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Projected versus actual outcomes for the U.S. power sector. Credit: Berkeley Lab Concerns about climate change are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations to set the goal of zeroing out power-sector carbon emissions. To date 17 states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Ri...

Alerts Photo: Getty (Getty Images) The U.S. has a lot of work to do to draw down carbon emissions. But a new report shows that when it comes to the energy grid, things are actually in better shape than researchers thought it’d be by this point. Advertisement The analysis from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory takes a look back at federal projections from the Energy Information Administration from 2005. The agency forecast that carbon pollution tied to electri...

16 April 2021 The cost of wind power could drop by half or more over the next 30 years, allowing wind to play a bigger role in future electricity networks around the world than previously thought, a new paper published in the journal Nature Energy finds. Offshore wind, which is more expensive and therefore much less common than onshore wind, will see the most dramatic price falls. Much bigger turbines will increase the capacity threefold, creating economies of scale that will drive the cost ene...

Experts’ Predictions for Future Wind Energy Costs Drop Significantly Berkeley Lab-led study shows expected cost declines of 17%-35% by 2035 and 37%-49% by 2050 April 15, 2021 0 Shares Technology and commercial advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the world’s foremost wind power experts. Experts anticipate cost reductions of 17%-35% by 2035 and 37%-49% by 2050, driven...

Experts Predict Accelerating Cost Reductions in Offshore Wind Study by wind energy researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UMass Amherst shows expected cost declines of 17%–35% by 2035 and 37%–49% by 2050 April 15, 2021 Figure 1. Estimates of future levelized costs in best-guess scenario. Figure 2. Estimated change in levelized costs across all three scenarios. Note: costs for floating offshore wind are compared to a 2019 b...

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(Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/iStock) Reliance on petroleum fuels and raging wildfires: Two separate, large-scale challenges that could be addressed by one scientific breakthrough. Teams from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Sandia National Laboratories have collaborated to develop a streamlined and efficient process for converting woody plant matter like forest overgrowth and agricultural waste – material that is currently burned either intentionally or unintentionally –...

SLAC Exploring and manipulating the behavior of polar vortices in materials may lead to new technology for faster data transfer and storage. Our high-speed, high-bandwidth world constantly requires new ways to process and store information. Semiconductors and magnetic materials have made up the bulk of data storage devices for decades. In recent years, however, researchers and engineers have turned to ferroelectric materials, a type of crystal that can be manipulated with electricity. In 2016,...